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I got a roton mib. I never opened it. They are cool looking I think better then the toys from mattel.

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What Are There? Vehicle Knock Offs? Foreign?

Below is a picture of 2 vehicles I picked up today. I have never seen them before, and they have no date stamp or company stamp that I can see. They are obvioulsy knocks offs I assume of the Attak Trak & Roton. They are made from a less quality plasitc, and are alot lighter in weight than the normal MOTU versions of the vehicles.

Nice bit of information about the Attack Trak: the canopy was originally included in Ted Mayer's design of the Attack Track toy, and looked almost excatly like the one in the model kit. More about that (hopefully) coming from the Power and the Honor Foundation soon

Wow they look so much better painted.
On a slightly different note I wonder if the "recognition" of these model kits (fighting foe men) would influence the design of a classics roton, talon fighter & attak trak (especially the attak trak since it also had a radically different design in the Filmation cartoon).

Mattel was the owner of monogram at this time (bought by Mattel in 1968 and sold to Odyssey Partners of New York in 1986): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogram_models
Finally the monogram model kits are just based on concepts arts/prototypes.
I just wonder why on the packagings Mattel choose to use unknown characters to illustrate them, maybe they were also inspired from prototype figures finally never realized?